Saturday, December 11, 2010

Burn Notice is the NEW MacGyver

So I'm flipping through the channels this morning and I notice that Sleuth TV is running a "Burn Notice" Marathon today (usually on Thursday nights on USA) and I'm glued to the TV.  I never miss a new episode of Burn Notice and if I do it is always TiVoed!!!  I'm going to out on a limb here and declare that Burn Notice is this generations MacGyver and that is a BOLD statement for me to make because I LOVED MacGyver and watched it EVERY Monday night growing up in the 80s.  Agree or Disagree?  Burn Notice is about a burned spy named Michel Westen.  Let's compare Burn Notice to MacGyver shall we.  MacGyver used the first-person narrative from MacGyver played by Richard Dean Anderson.  Burn Notice also uses the first person narrative from the viewpoint of covert-operations agent Michael Westen played by Jeffrey Donovan.  Hmmmm....  Worked for MacGyver and it is working for Michael Westen as the USA network has just announced that it has renewed Burn Notice for seasons five and sixth.  As we ALL know MacGyver could GET out of ANY situation, and he got into a LOT of situations, by using or making something ONLY from the material in the room he was in or his outdoor surroundings and he ALWAYS escaped in the last seconds to save the day.  MacGyver worked for the Phoenix Foundation and by ALL accounts was a SPY for the United States government.  When MacGyver was NOT on a mission for the Phoenix Foundation he always stumbled upon someone in need or someone that needed his help.  He was always at the right place at the right time.  Move forward to Burn Notice and lets compare the stats.  Michael Westen was a SPY for the United States government until he was burned meaning he got kicked out or in his case someone FORCED him out and since that moment he was burned he has made it his life's work to get the people that burned him and return to the work that he does BEST and that is being a SPY.  Like MacGyver, Michael Westen knows how to make a bomb out of paper clips and glue.  Well we all know that it's not that simple, but like MacGyver, Westen can get out of any situation that he finds himself in using only the supplies around him.  When Michael Westen is NOT looking for the people that burned him, he like MacGyver, finds himself stumbling upon people that needs his help, like MacGyver, the right place at the right time.  So the question begs asking who is better MacGyver or Westen?  Is Burn Notice just an updated version of MacGyver or are you of the school of thought that their is only one MacGyver?  Please leave your comments and vote MacGyver or Westen....

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